Question reference: S6W-04825
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 3 December 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 December 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has paid for its (a) active and (b) inactive website domain names in each year since 2016.
Answer
Scottish Government makes DNS changes to domains on a daily basis. Given the number of change requests that have been processed each day since renewals in 2016 and the way in which domains are managed it is not possible for us to provide an accurate breakdown of the “active” or “inactive” domains for any date or year other than the latest data we have for the current portfolio as it stands today. We can however provide a breakdown of annual costs for the renewal, management and enterprise DNS provision for the Scottish Government domains portfolio each year since 2016.
Date Total domains Total Ex Vat
2021-06-30 1039 £13,267.50
2020-06-30 1021 £12,530.00
2019-06-30 837 £10,455.00
2018-06-30 705 £8,493.00
2017-06-30 640 £7,612.00
2016-06-30 630 £7,186.00
We have defined “active” as a domain that has DNS configuration applied to it. Any domain that is currently parked with our Registrar Com Laude or has no DNS configuration has been defined as “inactive”.